Faiz anniversary observed

The 105th birth anniversary of intellectual revolutionary and famous poet of the Urdu language Faiz Ahmed Faiz was observed on Saturday.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in 1911 in Sialkot. He began his career as a lecturer in English at Amritsar. After the second World War he opted for journalism and was later appointed editor of The Pakistan Times. 

As a poet Faiz began writing on conventional themes of love and beauty but soon the conventional themes got submerged in the larger social and political issues of the day.

Faiz’s literary work was publicly honored when the Pakistan government conferred upon him the nation's highest civil award Nishan e Imtiaz in 1990.

Faiz was the first Asian poet to receive the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1962. In 1976 he was awarded the Lotus Prize for Literature.  He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize shortly before his death in 1984.